Hi, I’m Ping.

My story

For years I was coaching inside my therapy work without quite realizing it. People came to me wanting to grow as leaders, to start their own business, or to untangle their thoughts enough to see a way forward. Together we worked on whatever kept them from performing at their best, such as performance anxiety, imposter feelings, perfectionism and the beliefs that kept getting in their way. I was using EMDR for all of it, each time with a goal the person had chosen.

More and more, I was using EMDR to clear the blocks in front of people’s goals, as well as to process the past. I now coach other therapists too, including one who is anxious about running a business even though they’re fairly sure it will do well.

Coaching also means I can work with people wherever they live. What I enjoy most is still the same: a real conversation with one person, with enough time to get to the bottom of what’s in the way.

Formally trained

My training is clinical, and most of it is open only to licensed mental health professionals.

• Licensed therapist in Ontario, Canada (Registered Social Worker), bound by a professional code of ethics
• More than a decade as a trauma therapist
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
• Internal Family Systems
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Training in many other psychotherapy approaches

The difference

Coaching usually works on what you think and plan. That helps, and for plenty of people it’s enough. The people who find me tend to know what they want to do already. They get stuck on the reaction that arrives with the moment, like the blank mind in front of the board or the urge to prepare for three more days.

That reaction is what my clinical training is for. I work on it directly, with tools from EMDR and other therapies, inside a structured process built on EMDR’s protocol. Here’s how EMDR works in coaching. We take one barrier at a time, work through what’s driving it, and rehearse the real moment until it feels manageable. You’ll always know which step we’re on and why.

You leave each session with something concrete to try, and next time we look at what happened when you tried it, so we’re always working with what’s going on in your actual week.

What I believe

Capable people rarely need more advice. You usually know what you want to do, and the hard part is the moment itself. So instead of worksheets, we work on that moment until it feels different, and then you go and do it.

I also take what you tell me seriously. If something felt like bias, or just felt wrong, I won’t explain it away. And when the pace is right, I’ll ask you to go a little further than you normally would, because that’s often where things start to shift.

Who I work with

Most of the people I work with are facing a moment that asks more of them, like a new role, a board presentation or a keynote. They include engineers and tech leaders, people managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and therapists building their own practice.

Some of them were the one who held things together growing up, or the first in their family to get this far. If that sounds like you, you won’t have to explain it as hard here. You’re who I built this practice for.